Comment on Surfers stunned as plane door falls from sky and narrowly misses fisher on NSW beach

solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just don’t fly on these small planes and you’ll be fine. It’s always the small planes…

  The door came from a privately owned American RV-10 four-seater plane and the pilot and passenger landed safely after the incident.

  Eurobodalla Shire Council told the ABC in a statement that the pilot told airport staff “the door latch was not secured properly”.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol i don’t fly on any size plane. if i can’t get there on time by driving, so sorry, i won’t be able to attend

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used to be pretty fearful of flying but then I worked in an airport and saw how many people fly every single day without even a minor issue. That really normalised it for me (not that I fly often).

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      • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i’ve flown my entire life. it’s the parking, baggage limits, baggage fees, TSA bullshit, being surrounded by entitled tourists and their screaming shitlings in a tiny disgusting seat, layovers, delays, canceled flights, baggage claims, lost baggage, and yes–doors flying off of not-small planes that factored into my decision. fuck literally everything about flying. i don’t know how much money it would take to make me ever deal with any of it ever again, but it would be a hell of a lot

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